Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 14
Schlosser felt as if paralysed by lightning at the terrible disclosure, and without knowing what he did, he followed the two, who went on before, and knocked three times on a small iron door.
Who acts: Schlosser, two · What happens: feel, paralyse, know, do, follow, go on · To what, where: terrible disclosure, small iron door
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schlosser, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 paralysed | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 paralysed | mark |
| 5 | paralysed | paralyse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paralysed | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 disclosure | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 disclosure | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disclosure | amod |
| 11 | disclosure | disclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paralysed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 followed | cc |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 knowing | mark |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 followed | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 knowing | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 followed | nsubj |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 two | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 went | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 followed | ccomp |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knocked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 knocked | cc |
| 31 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 times | nummod |
| 33 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 knocked | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 door | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 door | det |
| 36 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 door | amod |
| 37 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 door | compound |
| 38 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knocked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Schlosser | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | paralyse a condition, not said to happen | participle | Schlosser not said here | the terrible disclosure | by lightning | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | Schlosser not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Schlosser | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | Schlosser | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go on | past | the two | who nsubj; before property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | knock | past | Schlosser not said here | a small iron door | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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